Olga Dorofeeva

Managing Partner and Director

Sergey Furtatov

Investment Director

Bogdan Iarovoi

Managing partner

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Bogdan Yarovoy

Founder and Managing Partner

Past deals in Art

Gali Health

Seed Round in 2019
At Gali Health, we are on a mission to make sure nobody ever feels isolated, lost or powerless in the face of existing or potential disease. We are working to advance consumer-powered healthcare by crowdsourcing personal health data and medically-validated insights, applying AI to process them and providing highly personalized informational support on the medical, lifestyle and psychological aspects of living with chronic disease. Our mobile personal health assistant named Gali relies on collective intelligence to help people with chronic conditions proactively manage their health.

Snipfeed

Seed Round in 2019
Snipfeed turns creators into entrepreneurs by offering one place where they can distribute all their content (Videos, Podcasts, Articles) and monetize their audience easily on mobile (through subscriptions, bundles, virtual gifts, tips, merch/referral links). On the other hand, Snipfeed lets users discover tons of new content and creators they wouldn't necessarily know about thanks to the recommendation system we developed powered by ML, think Tiktok for all kinds of formats. We re-index most of the content making audio and video easily searchable and recommended properly for GenZs. (Accelerated @Refiners fleet #4/ Skydeck HD Fall 18) Website: snipfeed.co

TransferGo Ltd.

Seed Round in 2014
TransferGo is a global money transfer company that supports migrant workers to send money back to their relatives without paying unnecessary bank fees. Through the company, migrants have the ability to transfer money overseas with the help of a digital account-to-account business model. As it is a licensed and authorized payment institution controlled by the FCA under the supervision of HMRC, the company is considered as a secure way of transferring money. Since it removes the costs of international transfers, TransferGo is a fit for businesses to pay their suppliers. It charges a fixed fee for transferring money as well as a 0.6% to 1.5% fee for the currency conversion per transaction.

Damon Motorcycles

Convertible Note in 2021
Damon is unleashing the full potential of personal mobility for the world’s commuters. With its proprietary electric drivetrain, the company has developed the world’s safest, smartest, fully connected electric motorcycle platform employing radical innovations in battery propagation resistance, sensor fusion and AI. Designed as a platform for worldwide line extension, Damon motorcycles will ship direct to consumer on subscription plans to drive scale. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Damon is a Techstars Mobility company founded by serial entrepreneurs Jay Giraud and Dom Kwong. Damon’s investors include Round 13 Capital, Techstars, Fontinalis, Extreme Venture Partners and Pallasite Ventures.

ondaka

Convertible Note in 2019
ondaka develops interactive, high-resolution 3D essential visual understanding of remote assets for oil and gas, and heavy equipment. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Sonarworks Ltd.

Series A in 2020
Sonarworks Ltd. develops and licenses software that calibrates sound on current headphones and speakers. It offers Reference 4 studio edition to work on headphones and speakers in studios; Reference 4 headphone edition for sound creation on headphones; True-fi for listeners; and headphones and mics. The company’s studio software is used by professional recording studios. Its software available online; and through dealers in Latvia and internationally. Sonarworks Ltd. was founded in 2012 and is based in Riga, Latvia.

ClassTag Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
The free ClassTag service transforms the way teachers connect with parents, allowing them to save time and focus on classroom education and activities rather than preparing and distributing parent notes and communications. With ClassTag, teachers can reach parents in over 50 languages through any channel including online, via email or text message, and even paper printouts. The cloud-based ClassTag platform inspires and rewards parent engagement with ClassTag Rewards, full of classroom supplies and learning products for the classrooms.

Eduson.tv

Seed Round in 2015
Eduson is a large corporate eLearning platform. Over 100,000 employees in 20+ countries and 4 languages study with Eduson (Coca-Cola, Efes, Heineken, etc.). The courses are delivered by outstanding lecturers: academics (Harvard, Wharton, LBS, INSEAD) and businessmen (KPMG, Merrill Lynch). Eduson is a 5-in-1 solution: - Online learning management system (LMS) for companies - Comprehensive library of online courses - Built-in course editor - Tool of personnel assessment - System of analytics for HR

Talkpush

Seed Round in 2018
Talkpush is making volume hiring fun and personal again. Talkpush is a recruitment platform that leverages the power of messaging and social media. The solution consists of Stanley, a recruitment chatbot compatible with Facebook and WeChat, which conducts interviews and an application management tool, which allows recruiters to evaluate and hire candidates faster than ever before.

JobEasy Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
JobEasy Inc. provides software testing, technical support, and other courses for graduates. The company offers manual quality assurance (QA), QA automation, tech support, application programming interface testing, DevOps, and python courses. It also provides software QA team for tech startups or businesses. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Cattle Care

Convertible Note in 2018
Video analytics for dairy farm operations

Shyft

Seed Round in 2018
Shyft Moving Inc., a mobility technology company, develops a solution for relocation management companies and human resource mobility departments within corporations that allows employees to live and move anywhere in the world. The company’s mobile application streamlines employee moving process for corporations. Shyft Moving Inc. was formerly known as Crater Group Co. and changed its name to Shyft Moving Inc. in August 2019. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Belgrade, Serbia.

Lobster IT Limited

Angel Round in 2015
Lobster IT Limited operates a social content marketplace that allows users to buy and sell photo licenses. Its platform connects users of Instagram and Flickr to buy/license photos, audio, videos, and text. The company provides a way for semi-professional photographers and videographers to make their content available for licensing and make a little bit of money on the side. Lobster IT Limited was incorporated in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

EWA Learn English

Convertible Note in 2021
Ewa learn English is an innovative method of learning a language. EWA started only in 2017 and skyrocketed to the very top charts in the Apple store and Google play surpassing well funded and long ago established competitors. The success of EWA based on combining fun, deep motivation, and unique learning techniques. The platform now has iOS, Android, and Web versions with more than 40 million users globally .

Passage

Seed Round in 2019
Passage powers ticketing and payments for special events both online and at-the-door. Passage caters to niche event verticals with category-specific branding and features, creating the top-of-mind brand in each category. One example is HauntPay, Passage’s ticketing and payment solution for the haunted attraction industry. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.

Acquired IO Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Acquired IO Inc. develops and operates a comprehensive user acquisition management platform. It provides centralized and versatile solution for managing user growth on social media networks and related services. The company provides services, such as connect all channels, create multiple campaigns, gather data from channels and attribution services, find bad performing campaigns, reallocate budgets, and stop loss rules. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Foster City, California. As of December 31, 2018, Acquired IO Inc. operates as a subsidiary of adjust GmbH.

Octi

Series A in 2019
Octi: The first people-powered social AR platform.

Kiwi Campus

Seed Round in 2019
Kiwi Campus, often referred to as Kiwi, is an on demand convenience service that delivers what you need, day or night. Our Kiwibots - cute little delivery robots - deliver right up to your doorstep. Kiwibot is making deliveries more affordable and accessible for communities. We're helping people with deliveries that are cheaper and faster than ever before. Kiwibots mesh seamlessly within the fabric of our sidewalks and empower anyone to get anything they want in under 30 minutes.

Eduson.tv

Series A in 2021
Eduson is a large corporate eLearning platform. Over 100,000 employees in 20+ countries and 4 languages study with Eduson (Coca-Cola, Efes, Heineken, etc.). The courses are delivered by outstanding lecturers: academics (Harvard, Wharton, LBS, INSEAD) and businessmen (KPMG, Merrill Lynch). Eduson is a 5-in-1 solution: - Online learning management system (LMS) for companies - Comprehensive library of online courses - Built-in course editor - Tool of personnel assessment - System of analytics for HR

Intento, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Intento helps global companies procure and utilize the best-fit cognitive AI services. The Intento AI Hub connects AI models trained on multiple platforms (such as Amazon, Google AutoML, or Microsoft Cognitive Services) with many enterprise software systems. Launched in 2017, Intento offers its patented, ISO-27001 certified platform to global technology, retail, and travel companies, augmenting their Localization, Content Management, Customer Support, and Marketing Operations with AI. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

AppFollow.fi Oy

Pre Seed Round in 2016
AppFollow.fi Oy designs and develops a cloud based app monitoring, app store optimization, and customer support platform. Its platform gathers and manage user app’s and game’s data, increase app conversion rate, improve app store rankings and app user loyalty. Its platform focuses on real time monitoring for reviews, updates, ranking changes, and search result positions. AppFollow.fi Oy was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.

Tickets Cloud

Angel Round in 2015
Service is the link between event managers and tickets distributors. Main mission is to build the effective distributors network for event managers. Main service hint - big data collection and interpretation, as a consequence price impact for consumers and increasing market margins. The service automatically maintains information about sold tickets, classifies consumers and allocates the fair value of the ticket for the customers.

Sourcerer Incorporated

Funding Round in 2017
Sourcerer Incorporated aggregates and stores source code from repositories like GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket to create a visual representation of a developer's work experience over time. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

ClassTag Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
The free ClassTag service transforms the way teachers connect with parents, allowing them to save time and focus on classroom education and activities rather than preparing and distributing parent notes and communications. With ClassTag, teachers can reach parents in over 50 languages through any channel including online, via email or text message, and even paper printouts. The cloud-based ClassTag platform inspires and rewards parent engagement with ClassTag Rewards, full of classroom supplies and learning products for the classrooms.

AppFollow.fi Oy

Pre Seed Round in 2015
AppFollow.fi Oy designs and develops a cloud based app monitoring, app store optimization, and customer support platform. Its platform gathers and manage user app’s and game’s data, increase app conversion rate, improve app store rankings and app user loyalty. Its platform focuses on real time monitoring for reviews, updates, ranking changes, and search result positions. AppFollow.fi Oy was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.

AllWork

Seed Round in 2019
AllWork, Inc. develops a platform that connects freelancer talent with brands and retailers. The company provides solutions, which includes recruiting, scheduling, training, communications, payments, budgeting, planning, reporting, and human resource administration. It also offers AllWork mobile application which gives managers the ability to improve coverage and make scheduling adjustments for their freelance talent. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York.

Snark, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
They work with artists to create blockchain-based crypto art: it’s their vision, with an assist from our technology and community marketing.These one-of-a-kind digital art works are then offered to the public via our auction and sales platform.It’s the chance to graduate from Cryptokitties into an entirely new type of art based on blockchain ideals of decentralized interaction.

JobAdx

Pre Seed Round in 2018
JobAdX is the smarter programmatic tool to maximize job board spend through real-time dynamic bidding. We bring one of most advanced digital advertising technologies with our true Pay-Per-Applicant model while empowering employers to advertise jobs using the power of Real-Time Job Delivery #DeliverDynamically. JobAdX also focuses on assisting publishers earn more money for their job sites through our Publisher Program, essentially working as AdSense for jobs.

TransferGo Ltd.

Series C in 2021
TransferGo is a global money transfer company that supports migrant workers to send money back to their relatives without paying unnecessary bank fees. Through the company, migrants have the ability to transfer money overseas with the help of a digital account-to-account business model. As it is a licensed and authorized payment institution controlled by the FCA under the supervision of HMRC, the company is considered as a secure way of transferring money. Since it removes the costs of international transfers, TransferGo is a fit for businesses to pay their suppliers. It charges a fixed fee for transferring money as well as a 0.6% to 1.5% fee for the currency conversion per transaction.

CariClub

Convertible Note in 2018
CariClub, Inc. provides a social impact platform that allows professionals to discover, connect with, and apply for junior board positions at nonprofits. It enables users to expand their professional network; develop new skill-sets; and engage with people from diverse backgrounds, including the board, staff, and the donor community. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

MarketMuse, Inc.

Series A in 2020
MarketMuse, Inc., doing business as MarketMuse, designs and develops an artificial intelligence (AI) based content intelligence and strategy platform to research, plan, and craft content. It offers MarketMuse that provides workflows for the entire content life cycle ranging from researching and planning to creation and optimization. The company’s solution is used by SEOs, content strategists, editors, and marketers. MarketMuse, Inc. was formerly known as Informite Inc. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

VeeRoute

Seed Round in 2015
SaaS-opmizer that calculates route of delivery and helps finding the best timetable of orders delivery

WARD

Pre Seed Round in 2017
WARD is a fantasy sport game, where fans can watch their favourite eSports matches and predict what will happen in real time. WARD is a startup out of Berlin which has created a “pick and predict” real-time prediction smartphone game, where players can win real prizes. People love to watch e-sports. We believe on these occasions they still want to be able to participate. However, until now no product has offered anything other than the ability to watch. There’s been no way for fans to spectate, participate, analyse and predict the outcomes of their favourite games.

Sweatcoin

Seed Round in 2018
Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by physical movement. They verify and convert movement into currency. Users can then donate it to charity, transfer to other users or spend on products, services, and experiences provided by Sweatcoin vendors and user community. Sweatcoin tackles Present Bias by moving the future benefits of exercise into the here and now- immediately converting movement into a digital currency and changing the perception of physical movement.

Wimark Systems

Angel Round in 2016
The WIMARK platform is able to fully replace expensive hardware-based WLAN controllers, while providing high performance and multivendor APs management. This is a fully software-based solution which can be installed both at a customer's local area network, and in the cloud of a carrier or service provider. Flexible WIMARK platform architecture and an open API allow customers to implement multiple cutting-edge Wi-Fi services, such as Hotspot 2.0 and Wi-Fi Calling.
PerformLive is a purpose-driven community for Creators & Sellers to monetize their talent and products via interactive live stream. It combines the power of live interaction, augmented reality, social selling & live commerce, all in one platform.

Voicery

Series A in 2018
Voicery synthesizes the most realistic human voices using deep neural networks. Prior to starting Voicery, Andrew, one of the founders, led the speech synthesis research team at Baidu Research. By synthesizing speech nearly indistinguishable from human, Voicery aims to enable new media applications, such as auto-generated audiobooks, podcasts, television dubs, and voice overs. Their website lets users compare human and synthesized sentences and guess which is which.

Storyhunter, Inc

Seed Round in 2017
Storyhunter is an online platform connecting media companies and brands with the world's top freelance journalists and filmmakers. For media companies, brands, and NGO's, we make it simple to find, hire, and pay freelancers anywhere for any kind of production. For journalists, filmmakers, production companies, agencies, we connect you with some of the most interesting and rewarding opportunities on the planet. Storyhunter is based in San Francisco and NYC

Talkpush

Seed Round in 2018
Talkpush is making volume hiring fun and personal again. Talkpush is a recruitment platform that leverages the power of messaging and social media. The solution consists of Stanley, a recruitment chatbot compatible with Facebook and WeChat, which conducts interviews and an application management tool, which allows recruiters to evaluate and hire candidates faster than ever before.

IntelliBoard

Series A in 2020
IntelliBoard provides analytic and reporting services to education communities and institutions that want expanded reporting and analytics for their LMS platform. We help extract the statistical data gathered within the LMS and present it on a single dashboard in the form of printable charts, graphs, and analytics.
PerformLive is a purpose-driven community for Creators & Sellers to monetize their talent and products via interactive live stream. It combines the power of live interaction, augmented reality, social selling & live commerce, all in one platform.

ClassTag Inc.

Convertible Note in 2018
The free ClassTag service transforms the way teachers connect with parents, allowing them to save time and focus on classroom education and activities rather than preparing and distributing parent notes and communications. With ClassTag, teachers can reach parents in over 50 languages through any channel including online, via email or text message, and even paper printouts. The cloud-based ClassTag platform inspires and rewards parent engagement with ClassTag Rewards, full of classroom supplies and learning products for the classrooms.

Expert360

Series B in 2017
Expert360 is APAC’s marketplace and management platform powering the freelance economy. The platform enables top freelance consultants, contractors and experts to easily connect with APAC’s largest businesses to perform high quality, project orientated work. Expert360’s platform allows enterprise to respond quickly to the resource demands of the business while streamlining the source-to-pay freelance management life cycle at scale.

Gimme Radio, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2018
Gimme Radio is a digital music platform designed for passionate music fans. It focuses on the underserved genres it is the only destination for the millions ignored by other music services. It features a DJ and programming and a proprietary community platform that connects DJs and artists, it is able to merchandise and market hyper-relevant and valuable goods to its listeners. Gimme Radio was founded in 2017 and headquartered in California, United States.

Intento, Inc.

Funding Round in 2018
Intento helps global companies procure and utilize the best-fit cognitive AI services. The Intento AI Hub connects AI models trained on multiple platforms (such as Amazon, Google AutoML, or Microsoft Cognitive Services) with many enterprise software systems. Launched in 2017, Intento offers its patented, ISO-27001 certified platform to global technology, retail, and travel companies, augmenting their Localization, Content Management, Customer Support, and Marketing Operations with AI. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Elafris, Inc

Seed Round in 2017
Elafris is a developer of an AI-driven digital assistant platform that helps financial institutions to engage consumers via social media. The platform enables insurers to engage consumers via messenger applications such as Facebook Messenger, SMS, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, WhatsApp, and WeChat. The AI-driven insurance-specific chatbot technology learns from customer interactions to help them identify and purchase the right insurance coverage, provide convenient payment reminders and credit card processing, and provide guided insurance claims processes via a smartphone. The San Francisco, California-located company was founded by Michael Shapiro and Jake Diner in 2017.

JobEasy Inc.

Convertible Note in 2020
JobEasy Inc. provides software testing, technical support, and other courses for graduates. The company offers manual quality assurance (QA), QA automation, tech support, application programming interface testing, DevOps, and python courses. It also provides software QA team for tech startups or businesses. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Tickets Cloud

Seed Round in 2016
Service is the link between event managers and tickets distributors. Main mission is to build the effective distributors network for event managers. Main service hint - big data collection and interpretation, as a consequence price impact for consumers and increasing market margins. The service automatically maintains information about sold tickets, classifies consumers and allocates the fair value of the ticket for the customers.

Hystax

Seed Round in 2019
Hystax was founded in 2016 by a seasoned team of entrepreneurs and engineers with a mission to address digital transformation challenges by introducing hybrid cloud management platform with a focus on IT budget control, hybrid cloud enablement, live cloud migration and IT Resilience. The platform combines substantial capabilities into a unique product offering that helps businesses keep IT costs under control, forecast and optimize monthly spending, manage workloads by seamless cloud migration and business continuity.